Aspin reviews spring legislative accomplishments

Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Jay Aspin
News Release

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Government House Leader, and Senator Claude Carignan, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, provided an update on the Harper Government’s spring legislative accomplishments.

Canadians gave us a strong mandate to secure our economic recovery and implement our low-tax plan to create jobs and economic growth, “ says Jay Aspin Member of Parliament for Nipissing-Timiskaming. “That is why our Government has re-introduced and passed the Next Phase of Canada's Economic Action Plan and increased the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors.”

We have also taken action to protect our economy by passing legislation to put an end to work stoppages.

By the end of this session, the list of measures passed by the House will include:

• The Next Phase of Canada's Economic Action Plan;

• The Supporting Vulnerable Seniors and Protecting Canada's Economic Recovery Act;

• An extension of Canada's involvement in the United Nations-sanctioned, NATO-led mission in Libya

• The Fair and Efficient Criminal Trials Act – also known as Mega-trials legislation; and,

• The main and supplementary estimates for the services the Government delivers to Canadians

We have also introduced other key pieces of legislation, including the Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act, and The Senate Reform Act.

In September, our Government will move forward quickly with legislation on additional priorities, including legislation to scrap the wasteful and ineffective long-gun registry.

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